PTE Academic is an innovative and engaging way to demonstrate your English language proficiency to international institutions. Designed to enable success, PTE Academic offers you many advantages.

Choose where and when you want to take your test.

• Register and schedule your test online, at a time that suits you
• Take the test in a single three-hour test session – a more convenient experience
• Take the test in one of Pearson’s global network of secure test centers – find a location to suit you

Be confident that you are prepared to succeed in your academic program.

• Tasks are interactive and integrated, reflecting how language is really used in everyday life - demonstrate that you have the English skills required to study
• PTE Academic uses authentic academic material - practice with familiar and enjoyable content

Be in control of your results.

• Receive email notification that your results are available to view online typically within five business days – the fastest way to measure your language skills
• Send score reports to as many institutions as you choose - no additional cost to you 
• See your results first, then select which institutions can view your scores -you decide
• Institutions can view your scores online typically within 48 hours of you permitting them to do so – an overall faster admission process 

More opportunities

Use your scores to go anywhere you want to go.

• A test of truly international English
• Accepted and respected by institutions and agencies worldwide 

          PTE Academic offers a high level of reliability and validity; therefore both you and those    institutions to whom you send scores can be confident that your score is an accurate measure of your academic English language ability.
You will be notified by email that your scores are available to view online within usually five business days from taking your test.
 You will be able to view your score report through a secure online website using a
unique login and password and then you can designate the institutions or agencies to which you would like your scores forwarded by Pearson.

Within just 48 hours of you allocating your results to your chosen programs, your selected institutions will be able to retrieve the scores from a secure online score reports website making the overall administration process easier and much faster. 
The online score report has a number of different sections:

• The first section contains your personal details and photograph
• In the middle of the report, your Overall Score is shown
• The final section of the score report shows more detail on how you performed on the test

The individual scores for Listening, Reading, Speaking, and Writing are shown, along with the scores for the six Enabling Skills.
You may find this useful to understand your strengths and weaknesses, and to provide
focus on the areas where you performed less well and could focus your future study.